A collaborative activity challenges young scholars to match medial graphemes and phonemes. Pairs take turns spinning the spinner, naming the letter, and saying its name. They choose from a stack of cards with the same medial sound.

In this phonics activity, students circle and write 4 words with the long /a/ sound.

Study the short and long sounds of the letter e. Learners will practice words and tongue twisters using both the short and long vowel /e/. They use letter boxes and letter tiles to spell words containing the target sound. To close the...

In this long vowel worksheet, students read and color words with the long e sound, 8 words total. The worksheet has a reference web site for additional activities.

Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...

Need some fun activities to augment your lessons on vowel patterns and phonemic awareness? Peruse a series of worksheets designed to help little ones with their early reading skills.

Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice...

Students navigate a website to practice the short e sound.  In this short e sound lesson, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.

In this language arts activity, learners study a picture of children at a library story time. Using the word bank of 10 words which end with Y (long /e/ sound), students circle the things in the picture that end with that sound.

In this long vowel E activity, learners examine a detailed picture of a farm scene and 10 words in a word bank. Students circle all the words that have long E sound, then find the pictures of these objects and color them.

In this long i learning exercise, students read about the long i sound, then bracket the long i sound in 5 long i words. One example is done for students.

Students study four words with the long /i/ sound in this language arts learning exercise. Students trace the words and then form them on the lines. Students then write two sentences, choosing from the words they wrote.

Kindergarten through second graders explore the long i sound. In this phonics activity, they read The Mother's Day Mice, sing "Farmer in the Dell," and play I Spy with long i in order to explore the target sound. Additionally, there is a...

In this language arts worksheet, learners learn the amazing power of the silent E to change short vowel /a/ words to long sounds. Students change two words and then write sentences for each.

In this long vowel a worksheet, students look at pictures and fill in the consonants to "a-e" words, and use learning cards to review "ai," "ay," and "ei" words. Students have 21 cards to work with.

Here is a great way for learners to practice identifying sounds made by both short and long vowels. This instructional activity stresses the a_e=/A/ correspondence along with letterboxes. They read their spelled words, whole text...

Students examine how "ee" makes the /E/ sound using Elkonin boxes and letter manipulatives. While reciting an e rhyme they practice saying the long /e/ sound before reading a story which contains long e words. Finally, they complete a...

In this vowel worksheet, students trace the word beside a picture. All words have either the long e or long o sound. Worksheet is designed to be signed by parent and child when completed.

Some sounds sound very similar! Help your class learn how to distinguish between various sounds by following the steps outlined in this plan. The plan includes a warm-up, a teacher-led portion, and details for guided and independent...

Scholars sound out and write twelve different words. Using Elkonin boxes, pupils say the name of each picture, then write the letters that make each sound.

Pre-readers benefit from visual context clues like the ones in this rhyme worksheet. There are two sets of objects here, and scholars connect objects on the left with their rhyming counterparts on the right. Each word has the vowel...

Take your kindergartners on a journey to the mythical planet Paz where residents segment words into phonemes, touching parts of their arm with each sound. This physical response to phoneme segmenting will appeal to your physical learners...

Learners recognize words by common spelling patterns. The teacher reads a poem to the class and look at rhymes for the word moon. They practice handwriting in conjunction with spelling, and they can even write their own -oo- poem! 

In this language arts worksheet, students examine 4 words in a word bank which all have long U sounds. Students trace, then write the words. Students then use 2 of the words in a sentence.